Editor: Eugenio Pompeo

Awake Thoracic Surgery

eBook: US $69 Special Offer (PDF + Printed Copy): US $166
Printed Copy: US $131
Library License: US $276
ISBN: 978-1-60805-651-4 (Print)
ISBN: 978-1-60805-288-2 (Online)
Year of Publication: 2012
DOI: 10.2174/97816080528821120101

Introduction

Awake thoracic surgery is a new surgical field that is set to expand in the near future. Employing sole epidural or local anaesthesia in fully awake patients renders many thoracic surgical procedures doable with less invasiveness and general anaesthesia related adverse effects can be avoided. This, in turn, facilitates fast track surgery and improves cost-effectiveness of treatment procedures. The book explains issues relevant to awake thoracic surgery including postoperative immunologic and stress-hormone responses, lung volume reduction surgery, pulmonary resections and thymectomy. This Ebook should be useful to readers interested in a comprehensive reference work on this intriguing minimally invasive surgical option.

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Contributors

Editor(s):
Eugenio Pompeo
Tor Vergata University
Rome
Italy




Contributor(s):
Vincenzo Ambrogi
Associate Professor, Department of Thoracic Surgery
Tor Vergata University
Rome
Italy


Maria Cantonetti
Associate Professor, Department of Onco-Hematology
Tor Vergata University
Rome
Italy


Ludovica Celidonio
Resident, Department of Anesthesiology and Intensive Care
Tor Vergata University
Rome
Italy


Filadelfo Coniglione
Assistant Professor, Department of Anesthesiology and Intensive Care
Tor Vergata University
Rome
Italy


Benedetto Cristino
Assistant Professor, Department of Thoracic Surgery
Tor Vergata University
Rome
Italy


Maria Elena Cufari
Resident, Department of Thoracic Surgery
Tor Vergata University
Rome
Italy


Thomas A. D’Amico
Professor, Section of Thoracic Surgery
Duke University Medical Center
Durham
North Carolina
USA


Mario Dauri
Associate Professor, Department of Anesthesiology and Intensive Care
Tor Vergata University
Rome
Italy


Florencia Della Badia
Resident, Department of Anesthesiology and Intensive Care
Tor Vergata University
Rome
Italy


Eleonora Fabbi
Department of Anesthesiology and Intensive Care
Tor Vergata University
Rome
Italy


Luca Frasca
Resident, Department of Thoracic Surgery
Tor Vergata University
Rome
Italy


Marc Katlic
Chairman, Department of Surgery and Surgeon-in-Chief
Sinai Hospital
MD
USA


Isao Matsumoto
Associate Professor, Department of General and Cardiothoracic Surgery
Kanazawa University
Kanazawa
Japan


Tommaso C Mineo
Professor and Head, Department of Thoracic Surgery
Tor Vergata University
Rome
Italy


Sarit Nahmias
Resident, Department of Anesthesiology and Intensive Care
Tor Vergata University
Rome
Italy


Ilaria Onorati
Department of Thoracic Surgery
Tor Vergata University
Rome
Italy


Makoto Oda
Professor, Department of General and Cardiothoracic Surgery
Kanazawa University
Kanazawa
Japan


Alessandra Picardi
Assistant Professor, Department of Onco-Hematology
Tor Vergata University
Rome
Italy


Eugenio Pompeo
Associate Professor, Department of Thoracic Surgery
Tor Vergata University
Rome
Italy


Paola Rogliani
Associate Professor, Department of Pneumology
Tor Vergata University
Rome
Italy


Elisabetta Sabato
Resident, Department of Anesthesiology, and Intensive Care
Tor Vergata University
Rome
Italy


Cesare Saltini
Professor and Head, Department of Pneumology
Tor Vergata University
Rome
Italy


Francesco Sellitri
Assistant Professor, Department of Thoracic Surgery
Tor Vergata University
Rome
Italy


Maria Beatrice Silvi
Assistant Professor, Department of Anesthesiology and Intensive Care
Tor Vergata University
Rome
Italy


Federico Tacconi
Assistant Professor, Department of Thoracic Surgery
Tor Vergata University
Rome
Italy


Gianluca Vanni
Department of Thoracic Surgery
Tor Vergata University
Rome
Italy


Go Watanabe
Professor and Chairman, Department of General and Cardiothoracic Surgery
Kanazawa University
Kanazawa
Japan




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